It was a different time is the most typical
American excuse to explain how we treated each other in the past; as well as, the greatest argument for revamped
American educational paradigms. We can’t change what we
don’t understand; and we can’t understand if we don’t learn.
During the idealistic late 1960’s and early 1970’s it was thought that teaching people a more inclusive version of
history would strengthen America and
help her to live up to her promise — it was a different
time.